The Government has kept its word and approved the return of the remaining CZK 5 billion to the budget of the Ministry of Defense. The fight against coronavirus has once again shown how important the Czech Army is. I hear praise from soldiers on all sides,“ said Minister of Defense Lubomír Metnar. After three months, the Defense …
In 2020, the Ministry of Defense drew the best budget for the last period, says an article on the website of the Ministry of Defense (army.cz), stating that last year the defense used up 97.5% of its budget and did not consume 1.8 billion, transferred to the new year. Only 782 million destined for the program financing (ie investments …
The Prime Minister strongly promised that he would not accept the communist request to cut the defense budget down by 10 billion Crowns. In the end he eventually did accept it, saying that the opposition was to blame, because it did not want to approve the Government's proposal for the entire budget, so the Government needed the …
In an interview for the Právo journal, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš assured the public that the 10 billion crowns, lost as part of the Communist requirement in the process of approving the state budget, will be returned to the Army budget in January.